Participants of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine appear in Red Square

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⚡️ Ukrainian nationalists are trying to attack Kherson on Victory Day, Sputnik correspondent says, reporting the sound of explosions and air defenses in operation

❗️Belarusian President Lukashenko says the West will fail in its attempts to drive a wedge between Russia and Belarus, as he warns Kiev that Western nations have already 'partitioned' Ukraine

⚡️ Five air targets of Ukrainian nationalists were shot down Near Chernobayevka in the Kherson region, security forces say

🎞📹 Anton Gomulko, a Mariupol resident, describes the moment when Ukrainian soldiers ordered his wife to leave the car keys in the ignition and walk away from their vehicle. When she refused to do so, explaining that it was the only means for evacuation, nationalists pointed a rifle at her and said "What about now?"

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❗️ Russian envoy to Poland attacked with red paint at wreath-laying ceremony in Warsaw

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry's update on the Ukrainian operation:

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit eight command posts, 26 artillery units at their firing positions, as well as 211 areas of concentrated manpower and military equipment; up to 350 nationalists were eliminated and 56 units of military equipment were destroyed;

▪️ High-precision air-based missiles have destroyed two command posts and one Ukrainian battery of Grad multiple rocket launchers during the night;

▪️ The "Bastion" coastal missile system has destroyed Ukrainian helicopters at a bounce platform by an Onyx high-precision missile near the Odessa region;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery destroyed four Ukrainian Smerch multiple rocket launchers and one launching ramp of an S-300 air defence system;

▪️ Russian air defence have shot down overnight three aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force: two MiG-29s and one Su-25

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⚡⚡Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned - reports

Russian Ambassador Andreyev couldn't lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw after attack, he left the place accompanied by police

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Russia's Foreign Ministry said about the attack the Russian ambassador to Warsaw that "we cannot be intimidated, neo-Nazism fans have once again bared their faces and these faces are bloody"

The Russian ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev said that he had not been injured by the attack on the memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw

Russian Ambassador Andreev said that the embassy will deliver a protest note to Poland complaining about the attack

For the first time since 2014, a veteran from the Kherson region is able to wear his awards and St George's ribbons. Ukrainian authorities had banned people from celebrating Victory Day

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